Stripping of whitespaces at the end of lines

Vincent Béron vberon at mecano.gme.usherb.ca
Thu May 30 09:05:04 CDT 2002


Patrik Stridvall a écrit :
> 
> > Here it is. It only targets .c and .h files.
> 
> Looks good.
> 
> <shameless-plug-for-perl>
> 
> However the script can be written much shorter in Perl
> 
> find . -name '*.[ch]' | xargs perl -i -pe 's/[ \t]+$//; s/;;+$/;/'
> 
> </shameless-plug-for-perl>

Unfortunately for me, Perl is still in my "to learn" pile of stuff. But
I will learn it, someday...

> 
> > The diff was ~4MB in size between before and after. The savings in a
> > .tar.gz of the whole tree were modest, around 25KB.
> 
> I have read through the diff (rather quickly) and it seem to be OK.
> In fact I can't think of anything in the C semantics that can make a
> difference if trailing whitespace or extra semicolon is removed.
> 

Thanks for the checking.

Vincent



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